Better off breathing: an explanation for the seemingly detrimental impact of aerobic respiration on Zymomonas mobilis

Better off breathing: an explanation for the seemingly detrimental impact of aerobic respiration on Zymomonas mobilis

ABSTRACTThe bacterium Zymomonas mobilis is best known for fermentatively producing more ethanol than yeast. However, Z. mobilis has also puzzled researchers for decades with the counterintuitive observation that disrupting aerobic respiration benefits aerobic growth, implying that fermentation remai...

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Main Author: James B. McKinlay
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Society for Microbiology 2024-01-01
Series:mBio
Subjects:
Zymomonas
respiration
fermentation
oxygen toxicity
bacterial physiology
ethanol
Online Access:https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mbio.02690-23

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